# OpalCat's site is in my NEWSPAPER!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opalcats-site-is-in-my-newspaper/25910 "2000-07-17T23:21:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opalcats-site-is-in-my-newspaper/25910/1 "2000-07-17T23:21:51Z")
I’m in a small-ish town, too! Well, OK, so the page is syndicated (KidNews), but still. . . From the Danville, IL Commercial-News: > [@](#): > > **Pop-ular site bursting with fun** > When you open a package, do you think the best part is the bubble wrap, not it’s contents? Do you find it impossible to stop after popping one or two plastic bubbles? If you must pop till you drop, stop by the World’s Best Bubble Wrap Homepage **([www.fathom.org/opalcat/bubblewrap.html](http://www.fathom.org/opalcat/bubblewrap.html))**. Cool, huh? I about fell out of my chair when I read it. **Moderator’s Note:** I have removed the major portion of this article. Posting copyrighted material in it’s entirety is not allowed on this message board. In several lawsuits it has been judged illegal. Please do **not** do this again. Small portions and links are acceptable. Entire works are not. - UncleBeer [Edited by UncleBeer on 07-20-2000 at 07:18 AM] ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opalcats-site-is-in-my-newspaper/25910/2 "2000-07-17T23:23:33Z")
Garfield, Is there a link? ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opalcats-site-is-in-my-newspaper/25910/3 "2000-07-17T23:36:09Z")
The paper is for _kids_??? Did they show some of the other, AHEM, _interesting_ parts of Opal’s domain? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opalcats-site-is-in-my-newspaper/25910/4 "2000-07-17T23:40:14Z")
Tech, I quoted the WHOLE article. Like I said, my town’s a bit on the small-is side. I found it in the archives of the Tribune, but you have to pay to read it all. Demo, that’s what I was thinking. What if some of those kids found there way over HERE?!?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opalcats-site-is-in-my-newspaper/25910/5 "2000-07-17T23:45:57Z")
small-ISH, that is ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opalcats-site-is-in-my-newspaper/25910/6 "2000-07-20T07:33:15Z")
Wait a minute… just the other day, a friend of mine showed me the Virtual Bubble Wrap. I didn’t look at the URL, but I should tell her that I know the person that made it. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opalcats-site-is-in-my-newspaper/25910/7 "2000-07-20T09:09:58Z")
Yeah, she was in mine not too long ago. I posted that, but I don’t think she saw it. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opalcats-site-is-in-my-newspaper/25910/8 "2000-07-22T03:37:43Z")
I wish _I_ got all the attention that part of my site gets. It’s been in so many newspapers and radio shows I’ve lost track. It’s also been in Health & Fitness magazine (??) and Redbook and Shift, and Entertainment Weekly. Reuters did an article on it once. They even featured it in “What’s Online” on CNN Headline News once. Not that they usually mention ME, mind you… I’d love to get a copy of that if you have it… email me.